What have you found on Craigslist?

Has your nonprofit used Craigslist? If so, how? What was the best thing you've found on the site? Do you recommend it as a resource for other nonprofits?

To learn more about this worldwide phenomenon, read TechSoup's article Craigslist: A Community with a Conscience.

Share your own thoughts -- and any noteworthy "found on Craigslist" stories -- here.

Craigslist was fine for looking up for jobs and things to buy.

Although its only a small part of craigslist, its unfortunate that craigslist is becoming a gateway for pimps, prostitues and human traffickers.

I am sure that I will get bashed for posting this fact. But Craig needs to wake up. Until then, I will steer people away from using craigslist.


What if the NY Times were to suddenly allow prostitues and pimps start to advertise their serviers and recruit people?

What if you were to recommend craigslist to a non profit center to help woman and then all of a sudden they see all the adds for luring sex workers to the us.

I once found a n add on craigs list from a man on the west coast trying to lure an under 15 year old girls from asia.

it stayed on craigs list for over a week.

I totally agree with wcook! The sex industry flourishes on Craigslist, at least in Portland. This seems SO incompatible with Craigslist's humanitarian principles.

Just to clarify, the reader who posted that second entry you're referring to was james54 -- not me!

Does anyone know if Craigslist is doing anything to monitor or control the types of posts you describe? It's too bad that these seem to have colored some users perceptions of the community.

At the same time, though, as with much of the Internet, you'll probably find what you're looking for on Craigslist, and there are a lot of good things to be found there, too. Many of TechSoup's hires have come from Craigslist -- and at least three CompuMentor employees have met their spouses there.

I recently started using Craigslist to find people to fill full time, part time, and contract positions.

I've gotten way more applicants than I did on, say, Careerbuilder. Careerbuilder had some cool tools to help sort through the applicants, but I find it easier to just sort them in all in my inbox.

Create a dedicated email account, create filters, and then move them to various folders as they come in (good, suck, interview, etc).

What a lot of people fail to mention about Craigslist is what a Facist little click it is. I don't say that lightly or to be offensive, rather to be factual. I have advertised my services on the list for quite some time, but then some users found a smart way to use the flagging system to their advantage to knock off the competition. Many users have complained about it on the site and eventually stopped using Craigslist because nothing was done to correct the problem. I decided to bring the problem to Craig's attention directly. Instead of helping me, he and his staff have since targeted my posts and delete them without rhyme or reason. They claim to be for internet neutrality and freedom of speech and communication but apparently when you bring up a problem to them in an attempt to make things better, they retaliate at the person trying to help them. In case you are wondering my posts were neither spam, or illegal or nasty in any way, just advertising legitimate services, and they now target me and allow spammers, prostitutes, and baby sellers to propegate on their site. That is facism at it's best. You post on Craigslit at the mercy of the staff. They get mad at you and you are out with no explanation and no repreave. This list is not run like a business but like a childs power play thing. Hopefully readers will see them for what they are. Others who have had problems with Craigslist should speak up because you are not alone.

I too have some of my postings deleted for apparently no reason.

If craigslist is "a community with a conscience", then why is it that every where you look on craigslist, you are always confronted the the "Beware of Scams and Fraud on craigslist warning messages".



I think that many of the people who work craigslist are fresh out of college or highschool.

Obviously they just want to be "Power Monger Geeks"